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NDS arrest Taliban weapons supplier, seize 7 vehicles laden with explosives
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives seized huge loads of weapons, ammunition and explosives by arresting a weapons supplier of the Taliban group in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan.The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the suspected supplier of weapons to the Taliban group was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! during a special military operation in Khoshi district. A statement by NDS said the weapons, ammunition and explosives were loaded on 7 vehicles which were confiscated by the intelligence operatives from Dobandi village. The statement further added that 1 Ak-47 rifle, 16 improvised bomb, 350 kg of ammonium nitrate explosives, 48 kg of potassium nitrate explosives, 29 mortar rounds, 680 kg of drugs, 29 BM1 warheads, and various other types of explosives were seized by the intelligence operatives. The Talibs group has not commented regarding the confiscation of the weapons and arrest of the group’s supplier. This comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant during the recent months with the wave of violence being unprecedented even during the winter times when the turbans groups were normally reducing insurgency activities. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-09 |
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